From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: "Francesco Potortì" <pot@gnu.org>
Cc: 24999@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#24999: closed (Re: bug#24999: 24.5; bad doc for invocation-directory)
Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2016 19:53:41 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <837f7s69y2.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1c9y5K-0002gt-Hl@tucano.isti.cnr.it> (message from Francesco Potortì on Thu, 24 Nov 2016 18:45:22 +0100)
> Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2016 18:45:22 +0100
> From: Francesco Potortì <pot@gnu.org>
>
> I had written:
>
> >The only way I found for obtaining the directory from which
> >Emacs was invoked is to get the default-directory of the *scratch*
> >buffer.
>
> Can this be considered as a bug? Or at least a wishlist? Having a
> variable that contains the invocation directory?
IMO it's not meaningful in Emacs to ask which directory was the
"current" when Emacs started. That's because Emacs pretends the
current directory is different for every buffer.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-11-24 17:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-11-23 10:23 bug#24999: 24.5; bad doc for invocation-directory Francesco Potortì
2016-11-24 17:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <handler.24999.D24999.148000823832450.notifdone@debbugs.gnu.org>
2016-11-24 17:45 ` bug#24999: closed (Re: bug#24999: 24.5; bad doc for invocation-directory) Francesco Potortì
2016-11-24 17:53 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2016-11-24 18:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-24 18:08 ` Francesco Potortì
2016-11-24 18:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-25 8:44 ` Francesco Potortì
2016-11-25 13:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-26 1:07 ` Richard Stallman
2016-11-26 7:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-26 1:07 ` Richard Stallman
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